Vladimir Putin takes on a tiger to save a TV crew

Updated on 01 September 2008

By Emily Reuben

Channel 4 News has been finding out whether everything is quite what it seems.

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Hero and macho man of the Siberian forests, or a particularly ludicrous PR stunt by the Kremlin?

Vladimir Putin emerges from the Russian forests with astonishing tales of daring, saving lives and warding off a tiger attack.

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